Cigarette-box



(No Model.)

M. MENDIZABAL.

CIGARETTE BOX. No. 369,408. Patented Sept. 6, 1887.

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ClGARETTE-BOX.

, SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 369,408, dated September 6, 1887.

Application filed June 18, 1887. Serial No. 241,125. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MANUEL llIENDIZABAL, a subject of theKing of Spain, residiugin the city of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Paper Boxes;

and I hereby declare the following to be a full,

of this kind have been constructed with a rigid frameand provided merely with a hanging flap at one end, which in use becomes loose and insecure.

In my invention these objections are avoided, to attain which I construct a box as shown in the accompanying drawings, in which A represents the outer case, and I3 represents the inner or sliding frame. The inner or sliding frame may be constructed with or without a fixed bottom throughout, and is provided at one end with a receptacle for matches, (1,, having a fixed bottom, while a movable bot-tom, b, is hung at (1, being allowed to move freely upward and downward in other respects, and having at the opposite end a flexible flap, a, folding at e and f, so that when the inner or sliding frame is drawn out of the outer case the movable bottom may be pushed up at the free end and the flap c drawn down so as to afford easy access to the contents of the box.

I claim- A cigarette-box made of paper or other suitable material, provided with an outer and inner casing, the latter having a receptacle for matches, with a fixed bottom, and a separate compartment for cigarettes having a movable bottom hung at or near one end, and allowed to move freely upward and downward in other respects, the other end being free and provided with a folding flap, substantially as described, and for the purposes set forth.

MANUEL MENDIZABAL. \Vitnesses:

H. S. STALLKNECHT, Brennan Torn Pnrrrn 

